A post graduate medical student of the Assam Medical College Hospital (AMCH) in Dibrugarh was killed inside an ICU allegedly by a ward boy triggering an indefinite strike by the junior doctors of the hospital, police said on Friday.

A 55-year-old ward boy of a government-run hospital in Ulhasnagar became perhaps the first accused in the city to be booked under the tough new anti-rape law, which was passed by Parliament last week. Officers of the Central police station in Ulhasnagar have registered an FIR for rape against the hospital staffer who molested a patient inside the o...

Stealing newborn babies from hospitals seems to be growing by the day across the country. In Pune's neigbouring township of Pimpri Chinchwad, a one-day-old baby boy was stolen from the maternity ward at the Yashwantrao Chavan Hospital on Monday afternoon. Images of a woman stealing the baby boy have been caught in the CCTV footage at the hospital t...

What should have been a routine delivery turned into a nightmare for a 20-year-old pregnant Borivli resident on Sunday, when she was forced to give birth just outside the walls of a civic hospital because of paperwork. Tara Verma, who was eight-months-pregnant, gave birth to a baby boy in a taxi just outside KEM hospital on Sunday evening. Both the...

Uttar Pradesh's failing healthcare system exposed once again. First there was the Babu Banarsi Das hospital in Bulandshahr where a ward boy and sweeper doubled up as doctors. They were filmed stitching up patients.
Now Sardhana town's only primary healthcare centre which is the only hospital for 12 villages around it, has in its 5 years of existen...

Three days after the shocking story of sweepers and ward boys treating patients at a hospital in Uttar Pradesh came to light, the state government has finally swung into action. The Chief Medical Superintendent (CMS) of the Babu Banarsi Das District hospital in Bulandshahr has been removed.

24 hours after a sweeper was seen on camera giving a child stitches on his leg, a repeat. This time in eastern Uttar Pradesh's Ballia district, Raj Kumar, a cleaner, provides similar attention to a young boy.

A video clip of a sweeper in a green shirt giving a young boy stitches at a Bulandshahr government hospital has shocked many. But apparently, the Health Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Ahmad Hasan, is not among them. The minister merely says too many emergencies at the hospital resulted in attendants doing the job of doctors.

Raj, who underwent over two hours of surgery on Friday, is recuperating in the paediatric ward of the hospital. Mid-Day had reported on the infant with a rare condition called partial caudal duplication, and his surgery at KEM hospital.

In the nursery for new-borns at Jodhpur's Umaid Hospital lies a baby girl who is seven days old. Her biological mother, who is in the women's general ward does not see her, or feed her. She remains un-named. She was born a healthy baby. Her shortcoming is that she is not a boy.

Denied admission in the emergency ward, a woman delivered a baby outside the elevator of a district hospital in Noida on Thursday, her husband said. Karuna, a resident of Sector 8 in Noida, gave birth to a boy while she was being taken to the out-patient department (OPD) from the emergency ward.

Seven women in a government hospital in Amravati were served phenyl by an attendant, who thought he was giving them a vitamin tonic. A case of medical negligence will be registered today against the hospital, say local administration officials. The women who were made to drink phenyl have all delivered babies just three days ago. T...

Manoj Surve, ward boy of a Goregaon-based hospital, was arrested by the police yesterday, for allegedly molesting a doctor, admitted there to undergo a piles operation. According to the complaint registered with the police, the victim, a Bangalore-based dentist, was admitted to Kapadia Hospital at MG Road in Goregaon (West). The victim said on Wedn...

In the first case of its kind at JJ Hospital in Mumbai, three employees of the hospital allegedly molested a woman inside the building's premises. The incident happened during the first week of December when the victim visited JJ Hospital, Byculla, to get her 13-year-old son treated for a heel ulcer.The three accused are Prabhakar Surve (55), Vinod...